This memorial honors those who served on Gallops Island Radio Training Station during the second World War.

The infamous Boston Mob ran rackets from an office here in the 1970s.

A stone marker commemorating the first time sound was transmitted over wires.

A more than 260-year-old crypt built on Boston's oldest English burial ground.

The site where Charles Dickens gave his first public reading of "A Christmas Carol" in the US.

This headstone marks the grave of an 11-year-old boy killed during clashes in the streets over the boycotting of British goods.

A men’s restroom became a sandwich shop.

One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.

A gift to the children of Boston, this bronze bear represents playfulness, a spirit of love, and the warmth of big hugs.

This historic Boston building has gone from personal estate to porn theater and back again.

Dim sum, served in a grand old theater.

The former site of an all-but-forgotten colonial landmark is now remembered by an often overlooked bas relief.

The final resting place of the first documented Chinese person in the United States lies in a Boston cemetery.

American revolutionaries and British soldiers alike are buried here in the fourth-ever cemetery in Boston.

The former locus of Boston's high culture has been shuttered and buried for over 70 years.

The Boston square dedicated to the dark poet who was born nearby.

A plaque memorializes the Boston location of one of the largest nightclub fires in history.

The history of the tea trade is told in bas-relief on this historic pair of Boston doors.

A beacon atop a downtown building provides Bostonians with weather forecasts and baseball news.

Statue commemorating the use of ether in anesthesia.

Mrs. Mallard and her brood are a beloved fixture in Boston Public Garden.

The former home of a Boston physician whose murder led to a revolution in forensic science.

Created by a local artist, these quirky sculptures each have their own names and personalities.

This bronze sculpture was inspired by a photograph of Martin Luther King Jr. and his wife embracing after he won the Nobel Peace Prize.